“He no longer beheld the night…It seemed to him that he felt those wings that we all have within us, unfolding…” Temperature fell, then storm arrived: slanting snows and billows of wind that broke in burst against wall and windows, scratch of snow soft in after-settling. Inside, they held to the warmth of one […]
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Journal Pages
SUBLIME REALITY
“There are some touching illusions which are, perhaps, sublime realities.”—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Book sits on reading table or wall’s top shelf. Bookmark creeps slowly into its volume between long pauses and time away until I return to it again; but it is always there, waiting for when soul should seek again. I […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
SCRAP OF BLUE
For my friend Tyler, thank you for the ways you enriched and grew the lives you touched. Thank you for the conversations, books, philosophy, and talks of God. I am grateful to have been your friend.
Journal Pages
FICTIONS OF A TRUE-LIVED LIFE
“What happens when you die?” the counselor asks. It was a question posed to her, years before, when another learned of her written volumes filled with private thoughts and dreams. “I don’t know,” I answer. “I never really thought about it,” the same answer she gave then. “Are there things in […]
Faith / Short Story
FULL CIRCLE
He was not a good Catholic, but he made efforts to improve; and isn’t that, perhaps, piece to life’s purpose: effort toward advancement and refinement, not in material or worldly sense, but for something of the soul, metric known to spirit and God but forever mystery to quantifiable means. He prayed the rosary […]
Faith
RETURNED
I believe God speaks in signs. I believe God communes in ways we may discern, even when we do not understand—when we open ourselves to receive and trust, live Faith, in what is shown. Even when unknowing to purpose and meaning to the sign; awareness to affection, and belief in its divine provision, is […]
Faith / Short Story
ADVENT
n. 1: a penitential period beginning four Sundays before Christmas. 2: the coming of Christ. 3: a coming into being or use. “…Brothers and sisters: you know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. Fr our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is […]
Short Story
AN INSPIRATION
“…sometimes—rarely, but magnificently—there comes a day when you’re open and relaxed enough to…receive…Your defenses might slacken and your anxieties might ease, and then magic can slip through. The idea, sensing your openness, will start to do its work on you. It will send the universal physical and emotional signals of inspiration (the chills up […]
Short Story
SHADOWS OF THE FAR SHORE
They walked together nineteenth century streets of an old harbor town; brick sidewalks and lane rising from water in narrow alleys up sloping seaside hills, clapboard sided townhomes painted in muti-color arrays as the sound of traffic carried over lanes made for horse and cart and now rattled with loose and shifted bricks under […]
Quick Thought
THANKSGIVING
There is a lot in life that draws us away, detracts us from presence in a moment, stealing focus from all we have into foolish for what we lack. The last few days, I have slowed down, played more football in backyard than I can remember, explored docks and mud shoals, rediscovered small […]